I spoke with a hurricane modeler who was just fired from the branch of NOAA that keeps weather models running. He got a form letter like hundreds of others telling him he was losing his job in an hour. This bodes very poorly for American forecasting. Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/02/noaa-cuts-nws/681875/?gift=1wJJOWpbGcy0FRPza_6RtDUPRttsJILZKFAUDrl3oTY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share